For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as one of Britain's most important abstract artists, renowned for large paintings that feature complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. It is fascinating to discover that she sees her decidedly modern paintings as following in an Old Master pictorial tradition. This affinity stems from a lifelong passion for paintings in the National Gallery, London, with which she was first associated as a young student, and later as a Trustee and exhibiting artist.
This book celebrates the artist's long engagement with the National Gallery. The authors discuss the significance of paintings from the Gallery's collection that Riley chose for exhibition alongside her own works, and they explain how the fluid lines of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, together with their palette of ochres, salmon, greens, and light blues, translate into the abstracted shapes that appear in Riley's work. The authors also demonstrate how the techniques and methods of modern masters including Cézanne, Seurat, and Matisse exert an important influence on Riley's paintings.
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:National Gallery London
(11/24/10-05/22/11)
- ISBN10 1857094972
- ISBN13 9781857094978
- Publish Date 22 February 2011 (first published November 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 February 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint National Gallery Company Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 78
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9781857094978